Zanele Muholi

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Zanele Muholi has a solo exhibition, Isibonelo/Evidence, at the Brooklyn Museum (1 May to November 2015). She is included in Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, New York (5 June to 9 September 2015); the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize exhibition, travelling to the Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt (20 June to 20 September); The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London (until September 2015); Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (14 March to 13 September); History, Art, Architecture and Design: 80s to Today, Pompidou Centre, Paris; The Order of Things, The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany (17 May to 10 October 2015); Homosexuality_ies, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (26 June to 1 December 2015); and the upcoming Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Tše Dintši/Abundance at Wits Art Museum (29 July - 11 October 2015).s

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Biography

Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972, and lives in Johannesburg. She co-founded the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW) in 2002, and in 2009 founded Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso.org), a forum for queer and visual (activist) media. Muholi's self-proclaimed mission is 'to re-write a black queer and trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our resistance and existence at the height of hate crimes in SA and beyond'. Muholi studied Advanced Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg, and in 2009 completed an MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University, Toronto. She has won numerous awards including the Ryerson Alumni Achievement Award (2015); the Fine Prize for an emerging artist at the 2013 Carnegie International; a Prince Claus Award (2013); the Index on Censorship - Freedom of Expression art award (2013); and the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography (2009). Her Faces and Phases series has shown at, among others, Documenta 13; the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; and the 29th São Paulo Biennale. She was shortlisted for the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her publication Faces and Phases: 2006-14 (Steidl/The Walther Collection). Muholi is an Honorary Professor of the University of the Arts, Bremen.